Omer Awad
Omer co-founded AlGooru and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer, overseeing operations, tutor onboarding, and customer experience. With a strong background in marketplaces and a track record in product management, Omer has played a key role in scaling the platform’s operations across the MENA region.
Khalid Abou Kassem
Khalid Abou Kassem is the founder and CEO of AlGooru, the first licensed tutoring platform in Saudi Arabia. With over eight years of experience in EdTech and marketplace startups, he has built and scaled AlGooru into a leading tutoring platform serving students across the MENA region. The company has delivered more than 150,000 sessions and […]
Ramy Abdulzaher
Ramy is an entrepreneur, engineer, husband, and father. He is originally from Egypt but was born and raised in Qatar. He now lives between Qatar and Canada and is acting as the co-founder and COO of Bonocle while pursuing a master’s in entrepreneurship studies. Bonocle is a startup working on disrupting the technologies available to […]
Abdelrazek Aly
Abdelrazek Aly, a social entrepreneur and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, is the driving force behind Bonocle – a groundbreaking Braille education platform. As Founder and CEO, he leverages his engineering expertise and profound commitment to social change to revolutionize access to digital content for the visually impaired. Under his leadership, Bonocle has achieved global […]
Ana María Raad
Ms Heleen Terwijn
In 1998, Heleen Terwijn, a Dutch psychologist/psychotherapist as part of a university research study in immigrant communities in Amsterdam, found alarmingly high depression rates, a lack of future orientation, and disaffection with school among pre-teens in these communities. Profoundly impacted by what she found, Terwijn created a program to capitalize on the natural enthusiasm of […]
Daniel Dotse
Daniel Dotse is the Co-founder and CEO of Lead For Ghana (LFG). Prior to launching LFG, Daniel worked as a biotechnologist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Beforet he ventured into the pharmaceutical world, Daniel studied biomedical engineering at Cornell University with a keen interest in nanotechnology. Daniel’s Cornell education was made possible by the Lester B. Knight Scholarship […]
Saku Tuominen
Saku Tuominen is a serial entrepreneur, author and speaker. He is the CEO of HundrED, a community improving K12 education globally by seeking and sharing inspiring educational innovations. His specialty is creativity and innovation, which he has taught in dozens of companies and in Aalto University in Helsinki. He has also written 10 books; about innovation, […]
Christy Moorhead
Christy Moorhead is Rumie’s COO and helps the organization keep running smoothly and quickly ahead. Christy joined Rumie from Pathways to Education Canada, where during her 6-year tenure, she steered Pathways during a period of significant growth. Prior to her work at Pathways, Christy spent most of her career in product management and marketing for […]
Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez
Following a rich and storied career in business, philanthropy, and academia, Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez became the seventh president of Utah Valley University in 2018. She is the first woman to serve full-time as UVU president. Raised in the slums of the Philippines, Tuminez rose to become a world leader in the fields of technology […]